In subsequent few months we will be conducting an experiment which involves installation of Windows 10 with default settings and recording all telemetry traffic which is transmitted by this OS. Received traffic will be recorded as well. Windows 10 will sit in mostly idle state for a few months in a virtual machine deployed on the always powered-on server. Besides basic OS setup, there will be not much activity in apps and browser, in order to record as much clean telemetry traffic of this OS as possible.

Then recorded telemetry traffic of Windows 10 (.pcap files) will be statistically analyzed by various criteria: incoming/outgoing, encrypted/unencrypted, type of internet protocol, peer IP address, domain and autonomous system (AS) number.

Said experiment will be documented in this blog in sufficient detail for independent reproducibility.

Software solution

Are you looking for a software that can block telemetry, Windows Updates, OneDrive, builtin ads, tracking of your location and other unwanted Windows network activity on your PC?

Are you tired of mere “registry tweakers” whose tweaks are mostly ignored by Microsoft anyway, and after applying all of them, 95% of Windows traffic still gets through to the Microsoft?

Do you need truly airtight remedy for data leaks?

FlashBoot and Emergency Boot Kit are the ultimate solutions you’ve been looking for.

• Use FlashBoot to create a USB installer for privacy-enabled Windows OS.
• Use Emergency Boot Kit to add traffic filtering to your existing Windows installation — no reinstall needed.

They can block all unwanted traffic of Windows 10/11, making the OS completely quiet online — something other tools can’t achieve.